Word: adds
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Political squabbles, economic pressures and social problems add to the government's burden. The Assembly, a hawkish group of men mostly from a middle class that stands to lose more from peace than the war-weary peasantry, distrusts Huong. Assembly members consider him soft on the issue of negotiations with the Communists. A Lower House deputy, Tran Quy Phong, recently threatened that "if Huong's government seeks a compromise with the Communists, it will be overthrown by the people." Inflationary pressure has mounted. Since Tet, the government has issued a billion piasters ($8,500,000) in new currency...
Speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles, McCarthy said the "presence of large numbers of supporters may well add to the danger of violence" already present in Chicago...
...planners have done hardly any staff work on the actual nuts-and-bolts details of a settlement cease-fire arrangements, means of inspection for troop withdrawals, stages of reducing the fighting. One reason for the lack stems from the realization that such wargaming would probably become known and would add to the uneasiness that already besets South Vietnamese rulers and other U.S. allies in Asia. The more fundamental explanation is the assumption by many U.S. policymakers that the North Vietnamese are unlikely ever to accept a deal that preserves South Viet Nam's sovereignty and self-determination...
...Abel allowed that he was "not totally happy" with the agreement, and a number of union locals showed their own displeasure by staging a series of wildcat strikes. Even so, the $1 billion-plus settlement was the biggest in the union's history. The contract will add at least 900 to the $4.93 the average steel-worker now receives in wages and benefits. By comparison, total compensation back in 1950 amounted to $1.91. Be sides a three-year pay increase of 440, the new pact calls for broadly improved pensions, a new $30-a-week vacation bonus...
...knows for sure why Agnew is Nixon's choice. It was clearly not for anything he will add to the campaign--he is an unknown, and not a dynamic speaker. Agnew did help Nixon's chances for the nomination by giving up his favorite son status and supporting Nixon, but it is not likely that any deal was involved...